title: A comparison of Italian, Japanese and American students' responses to the Adolescent Reinforcement Survey Schedule.
abstract: The Italian form of the Adolescent Reinforcement Survey Schedule (ARSS-I) was administered to (N = 648) high school boys and girls from northern and central Italy. Their responses were factor analyzed using a principal component. VARIMAX rotation procedure (SAS Institute, Inc., 1990). The 10 interpretable factors from the Italian data were compared and contrasted to factor analytic results from Holmes (1991, 1994) studies using American and Japanese students. Additionally, the Italian data analyses includes an examination by gender using t tests for each of the ARSS-I items and an ANOVA for age and age-gender effects on responses to the ARSS-I.
authors.affiliation: University of Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galeazzi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Franceschina
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cautela
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakano
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007558:Italy; D007564:Japan; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012919:Social Behavior; D014481:United States